We need a WinPE image as a per-requisite for us to capture the operating system. WinPE is a pre installation environment which allows us to do many things. If you haven’t installed WinPE on your system you can download and install WinPE by downloading “Windows Assessment and Deployment tool kit” (ADK). This software is essential for us to create a WinPE bootable ISO image...
If you have installed windows 8, you probably might have noticed that there is no option for hibernate neither in the power menu nor in the traditional ALT + F4 way to shutdown the PC . This was the same case even in its previous version windows 7 where I covered a post on how to enable hibernate option in windows 7 and this time it is not windows 7 and it is not the traditional start menu in...
If you are using windows 7 or windows 8 and would like to tweak your operating system to customize and personalize to your tastes then you can try changing the background of your taskbar. In this tweak we are going to add a custom image as background to taskbar and because of the transparency in the aero theme we can see the image behind the taskbar. However the aero theme has been disabled in...
Installing windows from USB drive is one of the possible ways of installing windows. There can be many reasons for you to install windows from a pendrive, It may be because the problem with your DVD drive or probably you don’t have the DVD copy of the windows you want to install. In such cases you can install the windows using USB stick provided that you have the copy of windows...
You can pin any run command to your taskbar or start screen on your windows 8 using the following method. In one of my previous video I have discussed on how you can pin shut down and lock PC shortcuts to task bar, In this post let us see how we can pin any command to start screen of your windows 8 operating system or to the task bar . It is very simple all you need to know the run command for...
If you have noticed, windows8 does not ask for conformation when you are trying to delete a file or files. But what if you have accidentally pressed delete button on your keyboard then the file immediately goes to recycle bin. However you need not worry as the deleted file(s) only goes to recycle bin and you can recover back. It will be useful to have the confirm delete pop up dialog so you need...
By Default Anyone who is using your PC can uninstall any metro application on your PC by just going to the start screen of your windows8 and right clicking on the App. But you might not like anyone who uses your PC to uninstall the windows store apps, So here is the way how you can stop users from uninstalling the windows store apps. 1. Open run box and type “gpedi.msc” which will...
If you are using Windows8 then you might already know about “Charms Menu Bar”, It appears on the right side of your screen whenever you take your cursor to the right bottom or right top corner of your screen. It helps you to quickly access PC Settings and access windows search feature however but at times it meddles and will be annoying. There is one simple registry trick which will...
If you want to customize the tiles on start screen of your windows8 , There are very few options available for customization using built-in features. When I was browsing I came across a post in ghacks.net, the post was about Obly Tile, a handy tool to customize the start screen and its tiles on windows8. Previously there was one app in windows store called Custom Tiles Maker , which was one...
You might have seen libraries directory many times if you are using windows for quite some time, Windows assumes that you place all your digital data in the folders available in the libraries directory but in reality it is different scenario. There are many reasons for not to put your files in windows installation drive as you don’t know when you wanted to format your PC. So as of now this...